六、

　　Mr. and Mrs. Bell are very forgetful（健忘的）. For example, Mr. Bell sometimes goes to his office for work on Sunday morning, for he thinks it is Monday. And Mrs. Bell sometimes forget to cook supper for the family.

　　One summer they planned（计划）to fly to New York for their holidays. They got to the airport only ten minutes before the plane took off. So time was short. But suddenly Mrs. Bell said she must tell Alice, their daughter,not to forget to lock the front door when she went to school. As Alice was then at school, they couldn't tell her about it by telephone. So they hurried to the post office. Mrs. Bell wrote a short note to Alice while Mr. Bell bought a stamp and an envelope（信封）. Soon the note was ready. They put the stamp on the envelope in a hurry and dropped it in the letter box, but suddenly Mrs. Bell began to cry. The short note was still in her hand. She had put the plane tickets in the envelope.

　　根据短文内容判断各句是否符合短文意思，符合的划"√"，否则划"×"。

　　1、Mr. Bell is so forgetful that sometimes he takes Sunday for Monday and goes to work on Sunday morning.

　　2、One summer they planned to fly to New York to see their daughter.

　　3、There was no telephone at the airport, so they had to write a note to Alice.

　　4、In a hurry they dropped their tickets in the letter box.

　　5、Suddenly Mrs. Bell began to cry because she had forgotten to put the stamp on the envelope.

　　七、

　　James wrote a play for television about a family who came to England from India, and the play was very interesting. It was bought by an American TV company（公司）.

　　James was then invited to go to New York to help them. He lived in Washington, which is an hour away from New York by air. The plane was going to take off at 8:30 in the morning. So he had to be at the airport at bout 7:30. He ordered a taxi for 6:30 and went to sleep. He forgot to wind the clock, and it stopped after midnight. Also the driver of the taxi had to work very late that night and he got up very late the next morning.

　　James woke with the feeling that something was wrong. He looked at his clock. It stood there silently with the hands pointing to ten past twelve. He turned on the radio and knew it was ten. He was late for the plane.

　　He was just preparing his coffee when the radio sent out another news, "Reports are coming in of a plane crash（飞机坠落）near Washington airport. A Boeing 707 fly to New York crashed shortly after taking off this morning. Plane number 2234…" James suddenly turned pale（苍白）.

　　"My plane," he said aloud. "If I haven't been late, "I'd have been on the plane!"

　　根据短文内容,判断各句是否符合短文意思，符合的划"√"，否则划"×"。

　　1、James was a writer from England.

　　2、He had to reach the airport at half past eight.

　　3、James would like to take a taxi at six thirty.

　　4、The driver came to pick him up on time.

　　5、When he turned on the radio he heard the speaker saying that he missed the plane.

　　6、James was lucky because he was not able to get on the plane.

　　7、The plane crashed while flying towards London.

　　8、Sometimes bad things can change into good ones.